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Magnus Nilsson's avatar

On Bill de Blasio - absolutely crazy and the type of state planning initiatives that will backfire badly. In this example it will lead to the demise of existing companies and instead newly formed, fully automised companies will be the winners. One needs to embrace a regulated market economy - de Blasio is looking for something else.

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John Sumser's avatar

The real problem is that it is difficult to define automation, particularly in knowledge based service jobs. While a few jobs will be completely automated, most will have the mundane bits slowly 'intelligenced'. Automation doesn't really happen at the stroke of a pen, it hapens gradually, like ivy growing on the walls of a building.

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